Governance reform: getting the fit right
- 2015
- p.238-249.
- Oct
This article builds on recent literature on political settlements and new institutional economics to suggest a good-fit alternative to the best practices approaches that until recently have dominated efforts at governance reform. It introduces a typology for distinguishing systematically among different groups of countries and maps the typology to four alternative approaches to governance reform. The article then offers a set of "good-fit" hypotheses as to the conditions under which each of the approaches is likely to be effective. - Reproduced.